Nietzsche and Kierkegaard

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The argumentative paper analyzes excerpts from both Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. The paper discusses the individual's response to faith, which for Nietzsche is a poor substitute for the will, and for Kierkegaard is a positive force. The paper explores several quotations beyond the specified passages, concluding that Nietzsche and Kierkegaard have radically dissimilar approaches given that they are both from European cultures.

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"Nietzsche and Kierkegaard on the Individual in Relation to Faith and Culture. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Soren Kierkegaard's ideas are more than familiar to us in the early 20th century, significant for having offered radical alternatives to then `mainstream' cultures, in their own times. When Nietzsche ventured in, The Gay Science, "who are we anyway?", in this question alone, he presented a strong challenge to central European popular culture that remain rooted in Christian or Judeo-Christian notions of social membership as they had become combined, over time, with bourgeois and literate culture (p.286)."

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